This weekend is perfect timing for the ‘axis of evil’ to exert their power to pursue expansionism. Putin likely told Xi that now would be opportune to threaten Taiwan. #Xi#Taiwan#China#PLO#AxisOfEvil “Not to alarm anyone, but China has surrounded Taiwan with warships and aircraft and the DoD has issued two statements about it over the past hour.” -P McLeary
While the Russian authorities boast that they were able to replace the “toxic” #dollar and #euro by transferring a significant part of transactions to the #yuan, the Central Bank is sounding the alarm. For normal operation, companies must be able to attract financing in yuan, but Russian banks are in short supply. #China does not provide them, so you can only rely on the Central Bank and the savings of Russian companies and citizens.
Former president Donald #Trump again invoked authoritarian leaders at a rally Thursday, a reminder of a vision he has been outlining for a potential second term.
Trump referenced Russian President Vladimir #Putin, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Chinese leader #Xi Jinping and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban.
Trump said the leaders were “at the top of their game, whether you like it or not.”
China schickt mehr als 60 Kampfflugzeuge Richtung Taiwan
Nach der Amtseinführung von Taiwans Präsidenten Ching-te hat Peking großangelegte Militärübungen durchgeführt. Dabei drangen nun etliche Kampfflugzeuge in Taiwans Luftverteidigungszone ein.
Archived news articles about events from just a few years ago are no longer showing up on internet searches in China, cutting off access to the country's recent history from all but the most resourceful researchers..
#China is home to around 200 #tiankeng, which are mostly distributed from the central #Shaanxi province down to the #GuangxiZhuang autonomous region in the southwest. Roughly 1/3 of the country consists of #karst — the highest proportion of overall surface area of any country in the world — compared with just under 1/5 in the United States.
A #VictoriaBC man who recently celebrated his 100th birthday has seen many changes in #BritishColumbia over the years, including how people of different ethnic backgrounds are treated.
A herd of 42 wild #AsianElephants were spotted in #MenglaCounty of southwest #China's #Yunnan Province recently, according to footage captured by the local monitoring team.
According to the team, the herds including 13 baby #elephants mainly traveled between #Mengban Town & neighboring #YaoquYaozu Township.
"Jinping's political ideology
China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by"